At this point, we should have these spine animated. And the next step is to keep…moving up the body and animate the arms.…So let's go ahead and animate one of the character's arms, so you can see the…process. So let's do a quick playback here.…You can see we have got some nice spine motion, but his arms are still pretty stiff.…So let's go ahead and make them a little bit more natural.…So first thing I want to do is go ahead and start rotating the arm.…Now I am going to make sure I am in a Local mode here so that way I am rotating…these along very specific axes. And make sure I have Auto Key turned on as well.…

So I am just going to go ahead and just rotate these down on both sides so that…they are close to the character's side.…So I really just want to get the arms away from that extended position.…But once I do that, you can see that his arms towards the side looks a little…bit more natural, but it's still not there.…So let's go ahead and just do this left arm here and go through the process of animating that.…

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4/12/2012

Character Animation Fundamentals in 3ds Max demonstrates the basic principles of character animation that help bring simple 3D characters to life. Starting with an overview of the character rig, author George Maestri provides guidelines for creating strong poses and explains how to animate from pose to pose in an organized fashion. The course also covers locomotion—animating realistic gestures, walks, and runs; explores the basics of facial expressions and dialogue; and culminates with an animated scene built entirely from scratch.

Topics include:

Posing digital characters

Creating stock poses

Understanding forces, character motion, and secondary motion

Keyframing initial poses

Animating weight shifts and pose-to-pose transitions

Animating walks and runs

Adding personality to a walk

Animating facial movement: blinks, head turns, and mouth movement

Animating an entire scene

Skill Level Intermediate

5h 56m

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Q: Where can I download the Linktivity Presenter drawing tool?

A: Linktivity Presenter is no longer available since the recording of this course. An alternative on-screen drawing tool is VB Doodle, which works with most 3d rendering software. Download VB Doodle here.